Collected Prose Poems
Life Before Man, $24.99 pb, 232 pp
Poetry
Baudelaire’s dream
Gary Catalano’s distinguished prose poetry
by Paul Hetherington •
The poetry community in Australia, as in the United Kingdom, has been slow to accept prose poetry as a legitimate poetic form. Yet there have been celebrated exponents of prose poetry over nearly two centuries – and even longer if the prose component of the Japanese Haibun, developed by Matsuo Bashō (1644–94), is understood as prose poetry.
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